Issue: Pornography

After former Vice President Dick Cheney gave a far-reaching interview for Playboy magazine, an anti-pornography group has spoken out, noting what it describes as the publication’s “exploitation” of women, The Washington Post reported.

An anti-pornography group is bashing former Vice President Cheney for his recent interview with Playboy magazine, alleging he helped legitimize the magazine and its lewd subject matter.

“Playboy’s introduction into American culture has served to break down social mores, ultimately spawning addictive behaviors, decay of marriage, the increase of child pornography and child predators, the increase of sexual violence and more demand for trafficked and prostituted women and children,” Dawn Hawkins, the executive director of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, said in a statement.

An anti-porn group is accusing former Vice President Dick Cheney of alienating women and endorsing pornography and sexual exploitation by giving an interview to Playboy magazine in which Cheney blasts the Obama administration on several fronts. The National Center on Sexual Exploitation said Wednesday that Cheney’s interview for the April issue of Playboy “further mainstreams pornography usage and fuels the acceptance of the hyper-sexualized, pornified state of our union.”